Newly Adopted Dog Runs Off Burglar From Ohio Home
Taking a bite out of crime
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By Jeff Gilliland and Lori Tuttle,The Times-Gazette
HILLSBORO, Ohio — A dog adopted just hours earlier from a pound likely saved a Hillsboro family from burglary Wednesday, and possibly an even worse fate.
Around 5 p.m., Rubert “Lee” and Elizabeth Littler adopted a 135-pound Saint Bernard from the Highland County Dog Pound. About six hours later the dog chased down a burglar that had allegedly cut telephone and cable lines to his new owner’s West Pleasant Street home and was attempting (or already had) to enter a basement door on the back side of the home.
Up to that point, Lee said, the dog he had just named Hercules had not made a sound.
